Issue date: 15/9/08Denominations: 40p, 42p, 66, 78pThe issue features the ‘Queen Victoria’ (90,000 gross tons); the ‘Grand Princess’ (109,000 gross tons), the ‘Century’ (71,145 gross tons) and the ‘Costa Mediterranea’ (86,000 gross tons) all of which are callers to the Rock of Gibraltar during the year. It is truly a fantastic sight to view these [...]

Date of issue: 1st June 2008 www.mycovercollection.blogspot.com

Issue date: 15.3.08Denomination: 40p, 40p, 42p, 42p, 49p, 49pEdmund Nelson and Catherine Nelson. His mother, who died when he was nine, was a grandniece of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Oxford, the de facto first prime minister of the British Parliament. It was at Beccles church, Suffolk in 1749 that Catherine Suckling from the [...]